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Kate’s Approach
Kate offers a thoughtful, relational approach to therapy, grounded in compassion, curiosity, and emotional depth. She offers clients a safe and non-judgemental space to explore anxieties, thoughts, and feelings about a particular issue.
Kate is a specialist relationship psychotherapist and uses a psychodynamic approach, which involves attending to the unconscious aspects as well as the conscious. This way of working helps you to bear difficult feelings, and have greater insight into how you see yourself and the other. In doing so, the aim of the work is to provide relief from those feelings and emotional suffering, at the same time as working towards understanding yourself and others for long term change.
Couple Psychotherapy
In couple therapy, the relationship between you and your partner, and the dynamic that you both create is the focus of the therapy. Kate helps couples break cycles that can feel stuck, and encourages curiosity to help improve both the communication and intimacy between you and your partner.
Couple therapy not only attends to the couple relationship but can also help each individual in the relationship gain an understanding of themselves and how they relate to others, and when this is heard and understood by their partner, this can bring more connectedness between the couple.
Individual Psychotherapy
Individual psychotherapy is about exploring your relationship with your self and others. Psychodynamic therapy can help you become aware of repeating patterns in your relationships with others and help you make sense of why you relate in the way that you do, and understand inner conflicts.
You might seek help for a specific issue, such as the loss of a loved one, the ending of a relationship or confusion around gender and sexuality. Equally, you might not know why you feel dissatisfaction with life, work or relationships, or have conflictual feelings about staying in a relationship or your profession.
In-House Therapy
If you are an organisation looking for in-house therapeutic support, then I offer brief focused psychotherapy and reflective practice for employees. This could be on a monthly basis, or in a block of sessions either in-person or online. Kate is particularly interested in supporting Bristol based organisations.
Therapeutic support can be especially helpful if you have an employee who is experiencing a life event that is impacting on their work and their psychological health.
About Kate
Kate trained at Tavistock Relationships, a leading centre of excellence for relationship and couple psychotherapy. She is a qualified Individual and Couple Psychodynamic Psychotherapist, registered with British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP).
With several years’ experience, Kate has worked with couples and individuals across the lifespan, from young adults to those in later life, and has also provided in-house therapeutic support within law firms.
She has a particular interest in supporting clients through transition, bereavement, and grief. Previously, Kate worked at The Harbour, a Bristol-based charity offering brief, focused therapy for people facing death, living with life-threatening illness, or bereaved.
Kate is currently undertaking ISTDP Core Training (Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy), an emotionally focused approach that complements and deepens her psychodynamic work. Rooted in Attachment Theory, ISTDP helps clients develop greater self-understanding and a more compassionate relationship with themselves.
Fees & Availability
Kate is based in Bristol, with a consulting room located on Orchard Street (BS1). She offers a quiet, comfortable, and confidential space for therapy.
Kate provides both in-person sessions and online therapy via Zoom. Sessions can be either time-limited or open-ended, depending on your needs.
Session structure:
Initial consultation lasts 90 minutes.
Ongoing sessions are either 50 or 60 minutes weekly.
Fees:
Individuals: £65–£80 per session
(Initial consultation: £90)
Currently waitlist only
Couples: £85–£95 per session
(Initial consultation: £115)Corporate and organisational services:
Single-session and block bookings available. Please enquire directly.
Contact Kate
To find out about Kate’s availability, please complete the contact form and include briefly the type of help you’re looking for, and Kate will respond to you as soon as possible.
In-person sessions are held in Kate’s consulting room in Orchard Street, Bristol BS1 5EH.